University Catalog 2024-2025

Mechanical Engineering (PhD)

Degree Requirement

Required Courses 139
Select a minimum of 6 credits (2 courses) of 700 level courses
Select a minimum of 18 credits (6 courses) 500-level to 700-level MAE courses
Select a maximum of 15 credits (5 courses) of non-MAE or MAE technical elective courses approved in conjunction with the academic committee
Research Courses24
Doctoral Dissertation Research (Complete a minimum of 24 research credit hours)
Additional Courses9
"Additional Courses" are approved in conjunction with the academic committee 2
Total Hours72
1

"Required Courses" must consist a minimum of two 700-level courses, and may consist of up to five non-MAE courses approved in conjunction with the academic committee.

2

"Additional Courses" are limited to MAE 500/700-level and MAE 895

Additional Requirements

  • Students with a previous MS degree from NCSU:
    • without minor – may transfer up to 18 credit hours
    • with minor – may transfer up to 30 credit hours
  • Students with a previous MS from outside NCSU:
    • without minor – may transfer up to 18 credit hours
    • with minor – may transfer up to 18 credit hours

Faculty

Full Professors

  • Gregory D. Buckner
  • Tarek Echekki
  • Farhan Saifuddin Gandhi
  • Tasnim Hassan
  • He Huang
  • Jack Ray Edwards Jr
  • Srinath Ekkad
  • Tiegang Fang
  • Ashok Gopalarathnam
  • Richard David Gould
  • Xiaoning Jiang
  • Richard F. Keltie
  • Clement Kleinstreuer
  • Andrey Valerevich Kuznetsov
  • Hong Luo
  • Kevin M. Lyons
  • Gracious Ngaile
  • Kara Jo Peters
  • Afsaneh Rabiei
  • Lawrence M. Silverberg
  • Juei Feng Tu
  • Fen Wu
  • Fuh-Gwo Yuan
  • Yong Zhu
  • Mohammed A. Zikry

Associate Professors

  • Matthew Bryant
  • Jeffrey W. Eischen
  • Scott M. Ferguson
  • Charles Edward Hall Jr.
  • Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang
  • Andre P. Mazzoleni
  • Venkat Narayanaswamy
  • Brendan O’Connor
  • Katherine Saul
  • Alexei V. Saveliev
  • Rohan A. Shirwalker
  • Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi
  • Christopher R. Vermillion
  • Cheryl Xu

Assistant Professors

  • James Braun
  • Darius Carter
  • Mingtai Chen
  • Chuyi Chen
  • Landon Grace
  • Kenneth Granlund
  • Veeraraghava Raju Hasti
  • Mohammad Heiranian
  • Timothy Joseph Horn
  • Arun Kumar Kota
  • Donggun Lee
  • Jun Liu
  • Marie Muller
  • Mark R. Pankow
  • Jason F. Patrick
  • Jong Eun Ryu
  • Pramod K. V. Subbareddy
  • Jie Yin

Practice/Research/Teaching Professor

  • Stephen D. Terry

Lecturers

  • Steven Berg
  • William Gregory Eades

Emeritus Faculty

  • John A. Bailey
  • Herbert Martin Eckerlin
  • Francis J. Hale
  • Franklin D. Hart
  • Hassan A. Hassan
  • Thomas H. Hodgson
  • Richard R. Johnson
  • David S. McRae
  • James C. Mulligan
  • Robert T. Nagel
  • Larry H. Royster
  • Ronald O. Scattergood
  • Furman Y. Sorrell Jr.
  • John S. Strenkowski
  • Carl F. Zorowski